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Pity Is Not Enough Tapa blanda - 1998

de Josephine Herbst; Introduction by Mary Ann Rasmussen


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"I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else," Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded at storytelling. The book draws loosely on Herbst's family history, using Reconstruction's demise in Georgia to link the advance of free market capitalism to the North's abandonment of its commitment to racial justice. The protagonists, Catherine Trexler and her brother Joe, a carpetbagger embroiled in railroad scandals, are ripped apart financially and psychologically by competing codes of domesticity, Southern manners, and capitalism. In her introduction to the book, Mary Ann Rasmussen argues that Herbst was unlike many other 1930s Leftists in that she refused the "essentialist notions of gender difference that confounded radical men and women of her generation." Herbst's first two novels, published in the late 1920s, were praised by both Katherine Anne Porter and Ernest Hemingway, but the writer gained greater fame with the proletarian fiction and leftist journalism she wrote during the next decade. Though never a member of the Communist Party, Herbst was ostracized as a sympathizer and dismissed from a government job in 1942. Because she never repudiated her radical beliefs and lifestyle, her literary reputation suffered.

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"I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else", Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded at story-telling. In this novel Herbst draws loosely on her family history, using Reconstruction's demise in Georgia to link the advance of free market capitalism to the North's abandonment of its commitment to racial justice. The protagonists - Catherine Trexler and her brother Joe, a carpetbagger embroiled in railroad scandals - are ripped apart financially and psychologically by competing codes of domesticity, Southern manners, and capitalism. In her introduction to the book, Mary Ann Rasmussen argues that Herbst was unlike many other 1930s leftists in that she refused the "essentialist notions of gender difference that confounded radical men and women of her generation".

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  • Título Pity Is Not Enough
  • Autor Josephine Herbst; Introduction by Mary Ann Rasmussen
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Páginas 400
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago
  • Fecha de publicación 1998-01
  • ISBN 9780252066528 / 0252066529
  • Peso 0.94 libras (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensiones 7.97 x 5.44 x 0.87 pulgadas (20.24 x 13.82 x 2.21 cm)
  • Temas
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97025830
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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